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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| GEORGE STREET | George Street George Street George Street George Street |
Provost K Brown Mr William Hodge Town Clerk Mr David Semple, Writer Plate on Wall |
012.02 | Extends from Causeyside Street to Broomlands Street. Consists of houses two and three storeys high, slated and in excellent repair. It is the best street in Paisley as regards size and extent, it is better than ¾ of a mile in length, is clean and very spacious and uniformly laid out, the houses at the east end are Adorned with some neat shops. On the Centre of this street, and where intersected by Maxwellton Street, is a round Circle of white paving stones, About ten links in diameter, with a Horse Shoe fixed in the Centre, said to mark the spot where several persons were burned for the Crime of Witchcraft in 1697. This place originally formed a part of the Gallow Green, this place of Common execution, but which is now occupied as houses, Gardens etc, and the name is now quite obsolete. |
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TOWN OF PAISLEY
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DANIALSAN, macfam
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